Kevin Smith's <cite>Batman: Cacophony</cite> Comic Fires Up

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Kevin Smith's <cite>Batman: Cacophony</cite> Comic Fires Up

Zack and Miri may have made an underwhelming porno, but writer/director/renaissance man Kevin Smith has made a Batman comic that shoots and scores.

The first installment of his three-issue miniseries, *Batman: *Cacophony, cleverly reintroduces the villain Onomatopoeia, a character Smith created in 2002 for his run on Green Arrow. A gunfight over Joker's bounty with Deadshot ensues, and all funny hell breaks loose.

Taking a look at these nice Batman: Cacophony preview panels, it's clear that Deadshot might want to reverse his name. Meanwhile, Onomatopoeia's name may be hard to pronounce (and type), but the mystery man is turning out to be one of DC Comics' more interesting villains of late.

"I loved that word," Smith once explained of Onomatopoeia, "and it kind of formed the character inasmuch as he would say sounds out loud. It only kind of works – I think – on a comic book page, because if you have a gun going off, they usually write BLAM! and then you can have, you know, the character saying 'BLAM!' in a word balloon, but like if you tried to do that cinematically, you can't really rock it."

The first issue of *Batman: *Cacophony hits stores Nov. 12. See more preview panels after the jump.